If You Needed Another Reason To Boycott The Winter Olympics: Sochi Plans To Mass Exterminate Stray Dogs

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has been the subject of intense scrutiny due to Russia’s anti-gay laws, rampant homophobia and even culturally accepted violence towards homosexuals. Making matters worse, reports have now surfaced that Sochi has hired a company to carry out mass extermination of thousands of dogs and cats leading up to the winter games, sparking outrage from animal rights groups and basically anyone who isn’t a heartless sociopath. From the Independent:

Alexei Sorokin, director general of Basya Services, said that his company is involved in what he described as the “catching and disposing” of dogs. Sorokin refused to specify whether they shoot or poison dogs or say where they take the carcasses.

But Sorokin emphasised that the action is necessary to safeguard the sportsmen and women taking part in the games, after he attended a rehearsal of the Olympic opening ceremony last week and saw a stray dog walking in on the performers.

“A dog ran into the Fisht Stadium, we took it away,” he said. “God forbid something like this happens at the actual opening ceremony. This will be a disgrace for the whole country.”

With all due respect, if a dog were to run out into the field during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, it would literally be the GREATEST THING EVER TO HAPPEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, breaking it a million times over. So in addition to cruelly murdering thousands of poor defenseless animals, the Russians are also robbing us of potentially mankind’s greatest achievement of the viral meme ever. In either case, f*ck those guys. I won’t be watching.

I guess Russia has yet to master fence technology? And it seems kinda unlikely that a dog or a cat would just waltz into an arena full of cheering people. That kind of place would be scary to most animals. Although a rabid dog might not behave rationally in that sense, I suppose. Still, fences, maybe?

You have clearly never lived around stray dogs. Are you imagining cute lab puppies? They are more likely to be in pain already, or carrying a disease, or prone to attack than lick your face and wag their tail.

Quit being pussies. Did you scream about chicken culls or deer hunting season?

I used to live in Romania at a time when Bucharest had a stray dog population of over 500,000. Many of my childhood memories involve running from dogs or seeing friends getting bit by one. Every year you heard a similar story of someone standing in line for a rabies shot getting bitten by a stray dog.

Oh don’t get me wrong. Russia is a horrible shithole that has brought little else but misery to the world especially in the last century. But on this is issue I just can’t see how Americans have the balls to complain considering this is standard practice in the USA

Wow, you are getting worse with every new article you write.
1) Stray dogs are as dangerous as wolves. Don’t believe me? Ask this little girl [www.wfaa.com] or just about anyone in anywhere. Those are not cute dogs. And they are not afraid of humans.
2) Those outraged animal right groups kill animals without any event happening. But it’s okay, right? Because obviously they post cute pictures on facebook and tell you how much they love dogs. Can’t argue with that.[www.nytimes.com]
3) Don’t walk around calling others sociopaths, if you can’t even do some basic research.
You people are the worst.

Well, the Russians do have experience with shipping entire populations to Sibera. I mean, if they could put these dogs to work in a gulag or something, they would have almost certainly done that instead.

I become increasingly curious just how much money it took to buy off the IOC. I mean how many dump trucks full of money did Russia back up to the IOC offices? Sochi seems to have been a terrible idea from the start and it just seems to get worse and worse, so how much does it take to buy the Olympics?

Something something about Peta killing more animals than they save in death camps. DANGER ZONE.
I just hope you guys look back at this and realise how hypocritical all this hullabaloo is.
2014 back on that cold war-is.

I don’t really get why you guys are so bothered by this. I mean I can understand why I am so bothered by this. I can understand why Russians are so bothered by this. In both our countries we have a sizable population of stray dogs and growing to love a few of the strays around your block or school is an every day experience

But you Americans? You are already killing millions of dogs and cats every day year for no other reason then them being strays…so I don’t see why you are suddenly so disturbed by the fact that Russia is imitating you

pat bateman tucks his weiner between his legs and sings showtunes lmao. Sissy. Seriously though, I don’t see any youtube videos of people from other countries saving stray dogs and finding homes for them, only Americans. SO shut your whore mouth.

I guess the US has compassion for animals and we think of dogs/cat as our pets. I do have empathy for JJ Jr.’s post about the overrun of dogs. I would hope their country spaded or neutered pets to control the population. I do not a solution however I dislike how it is being handled. I think though the athletes competing are the true victims. They went to represent their country and this put a stale taste on the Olympics. Go USA!